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Postdoctoral Fellows

I currently have not funding for postdocs, but anyone with
funding who wants to work with me, or anyone who wants to pursue
funding opportunities and would like my collaboration, please
contact me with research ideas.

Graduate Students

Getting into the Graduate Program at Tufts University is fairly
competitive. For students interested in my research, and in applying to Tufts
University for graduate work with me: I will always consider taking
on a new student given sufficient experience, qualifications, fit to
my research interests, and room within my lab.

I
currently am working on several projects focusing on sustainable
suburban development and urban ecology in Massachusetts, and on
wetland design and conservation of endangered Hawaiian waterbirds.
As you might know from my web page, I am particularly interested in
understanding extinction risk, and in the interface between behavior
and population biology. Despite my being a "bird guy", my students
have worked on amphibians, moss, and stress physiology, so I am not
restricted to bird research. However, all of my students work on
some aspect of population biology, or behavior, and conservation.

Let me give you a little background about our department's
admissions process. Our admissions process in the Biology Department
works a little differently than at other schools. We pride ourselves
on being a diverse department with lots of different research
interests. We thus do not admit students directly to any specific
laboratories. Instead, we are looking for well-rounded students who
can take advantage of our unique offerings. Part of what we look for
is that students are excited about, and capable of learning about,
biology at a variety of levels of biological organization (e.g. from
molecules and cells to organismal physiology and ecology). This
ultimately means that admission decisions are made by the department
and not by individual professors. However, individual faculty can,
and do, make recommendations about specific applicants that can
strongly influence the admission decision. Please contact
Eileen Magnant, the
departmental secretary who coordinates applications, for details
about applying.

If you have any questions about my work or openings in my lab,
please feel free to contact me:
Michael.reed@tufts.edu.

Undergraduates

If you are interested in gaining research experience in the lab,
please send me an email describing your academic record (a copy of
your transcript is best), your reasons for wanting research
experience, and SPECIFIC ideas you have about which aspect of our
lab's research you would be most interested in and why. If you don't
do these things it will tell me that you haven't researched the
lab's work very well.